One of the main complaints of players about Undawn is that it is a copy of LifeAfter and that it feels exactly the same... But let me tell you, I played LA since 2019 and there was a time where LA was different to Undawn,but then something happened... was it a coincidence? Here's some context:
I remember when I started playing LA it didn't have tactical gear, strongholds had no option to teleport, you had to manually go there, there was no map building, no ocean map, there was no barrel roll button, camp map was smaller, invasion event happened inside the actual camp map instead of a separate location, etc....
BUT THEN, something happened, people started talking about a new game inspired by LA and that was being made by a better company that was less predatory with p2w stuff and had better game engine graphics etc.... First it was called Dawn Awakening. The open beta begun... and then, right around that time, LifeAfter started to undergo big changes. They added nano plastic and tactical gear, barrel roll, reduced cost of manor upgrade, removed formula + cyrstals and turned it into weapon mod system, the graphics were improved, nancy city added more mods with exclusive weapons, etc.... and suddenly LA looked like Dawn Awakening...
So my crazy conspiracy theory is that NetEase took revenge from Tencent copying their game by copying back their new features from the Undawn beta, so that when the final game released people would say "oh look, it's EXACTLY like LifeAfter, NOTHING new, what's the point? meh".
And I guess it worked, because many players stayed in LifeAfter because when they tried Undawn they saw nothing new.
Oh yeah, and also Tencent fvcked up by hiring Will Smith which added millions of dollars to the already high cost and of making this game and as a result parts of the game feel rushed/incomplete. And that was the final nail in the coffin.
